BRICS and the New American Imperialism
| BRICS and the New American Imperialism |
| Autore | Satgar Vishwas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : Wits University Press, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256) |
| Soggetto topico |
Politics & government
International relations |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910377813303321 |
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| Johannesburg, : Wits University Press, 2020 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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BRICS and the New American Imperialism
| BRICS and the New American Imperialism |
| Autore | Satgar Vishwas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johannesburg, : Wits University Press, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256) |
| Soggetto topico |
Politics & government
International relations |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734100703321 |
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| Johannesburg, : Wits University Press, 2020 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction
| Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction |
| Autore | Satgar Vishwas |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wits University Press, 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NtlokotseRuth
AzeezHawzhin BenyaAsanda BischoffChristine CherryJane CockJacklyn HargreavesSamantha KonikInge Mbithi-DikgolJane |
| Collana | Democratic Marxisms Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Feminism and racism
Racism - 21st century COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Religious aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781776148301
1776148304 9781776148288 1776148282 9781776148295 1776148290 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance -- Chapter 1: Extractivism and crises: Rooting development alternatives in emancipatory African socialist eco-feminism -- Chapter 2: Jineology and the pandemic: Rojava's alternative anti-capitalist-statist model -- Part Two: Ecology and Transformative Women's Power in South Africa -- Chapter 3: Doing Eco-Feminism in a Time of Covid-19: Beyond the Limits of Liberal Feminism -- Chapter 4: 'Our existence is resistance': Women challenging mining and the climate crisis in a time of Covid-19 -- Chapter 5: Women and food sovereignty: Tackling hunger during Covid-19 -- Part Three: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women's Power in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Quiet rebels: Underground women miners and refusal as resistance -- Chapter 7: Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Government's Covid-19 fiscal responses and the crisis of social reproduction -- Chapter 9: Nursing and the crisis of social reproduction before and during Covid-19 -- Part Four: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? -- Chapter 10: Crises, socio-ecological reproduction and intersectionality: Challenges for emancipatory feminism -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910888485203321 |
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| Wits University Press, 2023 | ||
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A Love Letter to the Many : Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa / / Vishwas Satgar
| A Love Letter to the Many : Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa / / Vishwas Satgar |
| Autore | Satgar Vishwas |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (677 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 973 |
| Collana |
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024
Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - History
Slavery - Economic aspects - United States - History. Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History. |
| ISBN | 9789004692268 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface Writing Among, with and for the Many -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Acronyms -- Note on Texts and Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 Nature Pulls the Brake -- 2 A Child of the South African National Liberation Struggle -- 3 Discovering Radical Love for the Many -- 4 Against the Grain of Defeat - Transformative Intellectual Praxis and Left Renewal -- 5 Resisting Revolutionary Orthodoxy, Neoliberal Dogma and Emergent Neo- fascism -- 6 Towards Left Renewal through Transformative Politics -- 7 The Future as History -- References -- Part 1 Resisting Revolutionary Orthodoxy, Neoliberal Market Democracy and Emergent Neo-fascism -- Theme 1 Contributing to a Democratic Imaginary in the SACP -- 1 Workplace Forums and Autonomous Self-management from Below -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Limits of Co-determination -- 1.3 Beyond Co-determination? Workplace Forums and Transformation from Below -- 1.4 Changing Strategic Gears? The Challenge of Transformative Unionism -- 1.5 Defining a Transformative Vision? Worker Ownership and Control -- 1.6 Workplace Forums as A Worker Control Model? Co- determination and Autonomous Self- Management -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2 The Visible Hand of Development Planning in India: Lessons for South Africa -- 3 Cooperative Banks in South Africa: A Brief Survey -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A Brief History of Cooperative Banks -- 3.2.1 Overview of the South African Cooperatives Model -- 3.3 Essential Features of the Savings and Loan Delivery System -- 3.3.1 Membership -- 3.3.2 Management and Administrative Structures -- 3.3.3 Savings and Investment Policy -- 3.3.4 Loans Policy -- 3.3.5 Training -- 4 Militarisation in Southern Africa: Trade Unions and the Prospects for Peace.
5 Worker Owned Cooperatives, Development and Neoliberal Economic Adjustment -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Conceptual Issues -- 5.3 Worker Owned Cooperatives -- 5.4 The Development Process and Cooperatives -- 5.5 Neoliberal Economic Adjustment and the Impact on Cooperatives -- 5.6 Case Studies -- 5.7 Dairy Cooperatives in India -- 5.8 South African "White Owned" Seasonal Grain Cooperatives -- 5.9 Main Challenges for the SACP to Build a Socialist Cooperative Movement in South Africa -- 5.10 Building a Party-Movement Relationship with NCASA -- 5.11 Mobilising in Key Areas to Ensure Working Class Leadership of the Movement -- 5.12 Building an SACP Linked Cooperative Bank -- 5.13 Policy Intervention on the Cooperatives Bill -- 6 Be Partisan for Peace -- 7 Socialism and Sustainable Local Economic Development -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Placing the Local Township within the Multi-level World System -- 7.2.1 The Political Economy of the Township and the Local Government Response -- 7.3 The Global Ecological Crisis and Mainstream Local Alternatives -- 7.4 Does Marxist Socialism Have a Local Alternative? -- 7.5 Achieving Sustainable Local Economic Development through Socialist Transformation -- 7.6 The Programmatic Challenges for Building Elements of Socialism in the Township and the Household -- 7.7 Conclusion -- 8 In Defence of the SACP and the Struggle for Socialism in South Africa: A Response to the Central Committee Document -- 8.1 On Method in the Current South African Struggle: Dialectics or Disciplining Abstraction? -- 8.2 From NDR to 'Passive Revolution' - The Beginning of Neo-colonialism? -- 8.3 Dangers for the SACP -- 8.4 Defending the SACP and the Struggle for Socialism -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Theme 2 Rejecting the Fraud of the National Democratic Revolution -- 1 A Critique of Government's Macro-economic Strategy: Growth, Employment and Redistribution. 1.1 Introduction: The Growth Framework -- 1.2 Fiscal Policy -- 1.3 Monetary and Foreign Exchange Policy -- 1.4 Labour Market, Employment and Income Policy -- 1.5 Trade and Industry -- 1.6 Public Investment and Asset Restructuring -- 1.7 Conclusion - The Politics of Process -- 2 Neoliberalised South Africa: Labour and the Roots of Passive Revolution -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Shift from National Democratic Revolution to Passive Revolution -- 2.3 Neoliberalism and Apartheid -- 2.4 Labour's Agenda: The Democratic Corporatist State Solution -- 2.5 Globalising the Accumulation Model in the Conjuncture of a Democratic Corporatist State (1990-1996) -- 2.6 The Unravelling of anc-Led Alliance Hegemony -- 2.6.1 The Negotiations Phase (1990-1993) -- 2.6.2 The Phase of Democratic Advance (1994-1996) -- 2.7 The Rise of a Transnational Fraction of the South African Ruling Class and the Afro-neoliberal Historical Bloc -- 2.8 Conclusion -- 3 Global Capitalism and the Neoliberalisation of Africa -- 3.1 The First Scramble for Africa, Current Dynamics of Global Restructuring and Neoliberalism -- 3.2 Great Transformation: Afro-neoliberal Capitalism and the Disciplining of Africa -- 3.3 The Illiberal Side of Neoliberalism: Africa's Petro-states -- 3.4 US Supremacy and the Securitisation of Neoliberalism in Africa -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 The Marikana Massacre and the South African State's Low Intensity War against the People -- 4.1 New Faultline Is Revealed -- 4.2 COSATU's Challenge -- 5 Beyond Marikana: The Post-apartheid South African State -- 5.1 The Post-apartheid Developmental State in Question -- 5.2 Neoliberalisation and the End of South African Exceptionalism -- 5.3 The Conjuncture of the Afro-neoliberal State -- 5.4 The Internationalised Dimensions -- 5.5 The Primacy of Monetary Policy -- 5.6 Dismantling Self-sufficiency in Strategic Sectors. 5.7 Fostering a Culture of Capitalist Accumulation on the Terms of Transnational Capital -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6 Epidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa -- 6.1 The ANC's Crisis-Ridden Class Project -- 6.2 The Shift to Epidemiological Neoliberalism -- 6.3 Mitigating Socio-economic Hardship -- 6.4 Responding to the Economic Challenge -- 6.5 The Pandemic, Neoliberalism and Resistance -- 6.5.1 The Healthcare System -- 6.5.2 Unemployment and Hunger -- 6.5.3 The Pandemic and Climate Shocks -- 6.6 The Limits of Epidemiological Neoliberalism -- Theme 3 Opposing Zumafication in the SACP and Outside -- 1 Reflections: The Age of Barbarism -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 US Supremacy and Barbarism -- 1.3 Stalinism through the Eyes of William Kentridge -- 1.4 The Rise of Neo-Stalinist Populism in South Africa -- 1.5 The 2009 Elections and the Political Suicide of the SACP -- 1.6 Keeping History Open: The Struggle for a Democratic Left Project in South Africa -- 1.7 Limits Facing a Democratic Left Project -- 2 We Need a Truly Transformative Democracy -- 2.1 Popular Pressure -- 2.2 Corporate Power -- 2.3 Inventiveness -- 2.4 Alternative -- 3 'No!' Tells the anc Enough Is Enough -- 4 Protests Mustn't Harm Our Future -- 5 Fees Protests: History Shows True Revolution Lies Not in Violence -- 6 It's Up to Us to Make Sure Zuma Goes -- 7 The EFF's Wrecking Ball Politics Is Fascist Rather Than Left -- 8 Zuma's Cabinet Reshuffle Inaugurates South Africa's Zimbabwe Moment -- 9 South Africa Must Resist Another Captured President, This Time by the Markets -- 9.1 The 'Cyril Effect' Is Hyperbole -- 9.2 The ANC's Legitimacy Crisis -- 10 Trump May Be Gone, but Neo-fascism Remains Alive and Kicking in Mainstream American Society -- 10.1 Rising to the Top of the System -- 10.2 Some Context -- 11 South Africa Is Turning on Itself. 12 International Mandela Day - Respondent to Keynote Address of President Cyril Ramaphosa, 18 July, 2021 -- 12.1 -- 12.2 -- 12.3 -- 13 Without a Serious Challenge from the Left, the Political Field in South Africa Could See the Emergence of an Extreme Right14 -- 13.1 Crises of Neoliberal Capitalism and Market Democracy -- 13.2 Identity Politics and Neo-fascism -- 13.3 Defending Democracy by and for the People -- Theme 4 The Challenge of Left Renewal in the Context of Worsening Capitalist Crisis -- 1 The Left Project and Post-national Liberation Politics -- 1.1 The Pendulum and History -- 1.2 Refinding the Left Compass -- 1.3 The Left Project and Permanent Renewal -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 There Is a Democratic Left Response to the Global Crisis -- 3 Occupying the Economy -- 3.1 A Flawed Insolvency Process -- 3.2 Implications -- 3.2.1 Challenging the Responsiveness of the State -- 3.2.2 Shifting the Property Relations Debate -- 3.2.3 Advancing the Solidarity Economy Movement from Below -- 3.2.4 A Transformative Option for Trade Union Strategy -- 4 Reclaiming a Vision of Hope and a Life of Dignity -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 How Did Afro-neoliberalism Steal the South African Dream? -- 4.3 South Africa's Double Conjunctural and Structural Crisis: Afro-neoliberal Dystopia and the Global Civilizational Crisis -- 4.4 South Africa's Double Squeeze on Democracy -- 4.5 Redefining the Category 'Left': Authoritarian Left versus Democratic Left -- 4.6 Capitalism the Enemy of Hope and Dignity: Guidelines for Reclaiming an Anti-capitalist Vision of Hope and Dignity -- 5 Numsa Moment Leads Left Renewal -- 6 Between Crisis and Renewal: Where to for South Africa's Left? -- 6.1 The Crisis of the National Liberation Left in South Africa -- 6.2 The Making of a New Left from Below -- 6.3 The Horizon and Challenges for Post-national Liberation Left Counter-Hegemony. Part 2 Decolonial Critique of Eco-cidal Capitalism. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910907060003321 |
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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